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Gonna stop you right there because the rest of your response is fantasy, if legislation can't be passed.
Whose gonna propose those bills? Who is going to vote on them? Where are they going to pass? Give me reasonable answers to those questions and we can proceed.
I bought in Honolulu in 2020 after owning in Oregon for 6 years. The average sale price is 1.5 million, median is 1.1 million, and the houses are straight up rotten garbage (I grew up in North County San Diego in a construction family, SD has much higher build quality).
There are basically no homes for sale in Honolulu county right now. Just scanned the numbers this AM. Tear downs are going for 600-800k.
A crash wouldnt bother me, but its basically unbelievable to me. Ultimately all that money printed is going to find its way into inflated durable goods, and (ding ding ding) residential property.
Sorry to let you know this brother (or sister or non-gender conforming individual), but selling that condo might have been a fatal mistake. Its not clear to me based on macro economic and ongoing political conditions that housing prices will ever materially go down. Honolulu has a ban and cap on short term rentals. Didn't do shit. We've got more homeless than ever and rents have gone up 30% since. Add onto that losses of structures due to climate related disasters. California had the Tubbs fire (1k homes?) and then the Paradise fire (11k homes). We just had the Lahaina fire. Those homes aren't getting rebuilt into affordable housing, I promise.
I've done the math. There is no reasonable scenario I can see where housing prices go down substantially over the next 20 years. We're going to be supply side constrained with ever increasing demand. This is a hold/ buy and hold time.
The math shows that a median income cannot even pay a median mortgage, at 100% of income going to mortgage. Mortgage prices translate to rent prices. Not 1:1, but are directly correlated.
Anyone locked into the before times intetest rates is going to sit pretty if at all possible, because they can't afford to sell and buy elsewhere without a major downgrade.
And returning to the low interest rates will just kick the can down the road, because it was a large cause of the runaway borrowing that led to real estate inflation.
The only way to really fix this is to force the properties out of the greedy corporate / hedge fund hands that are hoarding property that should be in occupier hands. That's how a healthy society and economy works.
The pain of this crisis is being felt by many. The more discontent there is, the more pressure there is on politicians to pass legislature to address the problem.
I don't have an A --> B plan on how to push the legislation through, but social unrest generates pressure to do so.